Bodega Bay Fishing Report
Northern California Weekly Fishing Report – Bodega Bay, San Francisco Bay, Tomales Bay & Fort Bragg
Click any tile below for this week’s Bodega Bay fishing report. We try post a fresh report every week we can get on the water—weather permitting—so you always know what’s biting, where, and why. Furthermore, our charter skippers deliver completely honest fishing reports. This includes big-number days, slow grinds, and everything in between. All helping you set realistic expectations before you book a trip.
If you want a quick snapshot of peak seasons for salmon, rockfish, lingcod, halibut, tuna, and crab, then jump over to our What We Catch page for month-by-month highlights.
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 4-27-25
The offshore lingcod bite was wide open. Inshore halibut not so much. Summer feels like its knocking on our door as Deepwater rockfish season ends in a epic fashion. San Francisco Bay Fishing Report 4-23-25 From Capt Josh. We grabbed a scoop of live bait from the city and found a spot in the north bay holding a good grade of fish today. Plenty of action, with a lot of big halibut in the mix. Ended the day with 5 big halibut and a several stripers. The biggest halibut tapped out to 36”. San Francisco Bay Fishing Report 4-24-25 Capt…
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Albacore Tuna Fishing 101
The Albacore Tuna Albacore Tuna fishing is one of the most thrilling fisheries along the west coast and my personal favorite fish to catch. Although they are much smaller in size compared to many of their tuna cousins, they still pack a pretty good fight. They offer a good yield of tasty meat for their average size of about 10 to 30 lbs. Albacore tuna have been a staple fishery for California, Oregon, and Washington for well over a century. The range of albacore, also known as longfin tuna, has been greatly reduced over the past two decades for unknown…
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 4-20-25
Fishing this week was decent with good rockfish coming in but a slower bite on the lings. Lots of wind keeping trips limited as normal for april with only 2 trips last week. As I type this Capt. Josh is reporting a pretty good bite in the bay today so expect things to improve this week for both bay halibut and offshore lings as they typically feed on similar moon and tide patterns. Bodega Bay Offshore Rockfish 4-17-25 On Thursday we headed offshore with a smaller group of 4 due to a cancellation, swells were large but the wind was…
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 4-06-25
First Report of the season with some good offshore lingcod action and striper action in the bay. Bodega Bay Offshore Rockfish 4-5-25 On Saturday we headed offshore into a slight wind chop and quickly caught about 60 sand dabs and one giant petrale sole. We then shifted to the shallower grounds in our offshore area and found a slow but steady pick on lingcod and yellowtail rockfish. After a few hours we had 6 good quality lingcod and we decided to look a little deeper and finished out the rest of our rockfish limits with jumbo canaries that were willing…
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Northern California Fishing Update 3-14-25
As fishing season approaches with an April 1st start date for us, we are very busy getting both boats ready to start fishing out of SF bay and Bodega Bay. There are a few big and small changes to the new regulations for 2025, but Salmon remains as the big question, and at best it doesn’t look great. Salmon From the PFMC “California’s ocean recreational fishing alternatives offer limited opportunities in all management areas under two of the three proposed options with small openers of a few to several days separated by closed periods. The third option proposes a coastwide…
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Bodega Bay Fishing Report Week of 12-03-24
Insane offshore Yellowtail bite, with some hit or miss albacore in the mix. Wide open inshore bite. Decent but steady crabbing. The fishing can’t get more epic. Bodega Bay Tuna Report 11-26-24 We headed west and found that the bait and life from the past few weeks of albacore action had scattered, we trolled further west for a few hours and out of the blue had 6 rods go off with several yellowtail leaping feet into the air on the hookup, we were all shocked since we were fishing in 58 degree water hundred of miles away from somewhere you…
Past Fishing Report Archive
- April 2026 (2)
- December 2025 (1)
- November 2025 (3)
- October 2025 (1)
- August 2025 (2)
- July 2025 (5)
- June 2025 (3)
- May 2025 (1)
- April 2025 (4)
- March 2025 (1)
- December 2024 (1)
- November 2024 (2)
- October 2024 (1)
- September 2024 (2)
- August 2024 (3)
- July 2024 (4)
- June 2024 (4)
- May 2024 (2)
- April 2024 (1)
- March 2024 (1)
- February 2024 (1)
- November 2023 (1)
- October 2023 (3)
- September 2023 (1)
- August 2023 (3)
- July 2023 (3)
- June 2023 (4)
- May 2023 (1)
Bodega Bay Fishing Report Information:
Captain Ryan primarily writes these fishing reports when he gets a chance on Sunday or Monday evenings. Sometimes life gets in the way and it gets delayed. But if we leave the dock, whether the fishing’s good or bad, it will end up on this report eventually. Our Fishing reports will include Tomales Bay, Bodega Bay, Fort Bragg, San Francisco Bay and anywhere else we fish. You can expect fishing reports from Bodega Bay and Tomales Bay regularly. These reports are available for most of the summer, fall, and early winter. We continue until we dry dock the boat around Christmas. Currently the only other honest and first hand experience fishing report is from Willy with the Lawsons Landing Report down at Dillion’s Beach. We will also include fishing reports for our personal trips (when we are lucky enough to get them in) and tips and info from friends or other boats when we can get them. We are working on expanding this section of the website and archiving fishing reports out of Bodega Bay for years to come, for clients to get a better understanding of what seasons are best for what species. Overall this report is labeled as the Bodega Bay Fishing Report, but covers a wide variety of reports and information.